the third and final day of lena and farhaan’s walima was also a little wet and cloudy, but not enough to keep us from grabbing a few pre-reception portraits outdoors at the hilton mclean tyson’s corner, a gem of a hotel for bits of interior and exterior that make for gorgeous and interesting photo backdrops. lena’s makeup was again handled by the lovely nabila, and the fantastic decor…

i can’t believe that it took me so long to get around to sharing this wedding - in particular our sessions in san francisco, because that’s the farthest i’ve traveled for a wedding and it was pretty much the PERFECT weekend for me lol. we had two portrait sessions - one the day before the walima, starting at the palace of fine arts, then…

shooting another photographer's wedding is always a mix of excitement and pressure. the pressure, clearly, because your client actually knows what you're doing; the excitement, though, because your client tends to know what works and makes it so much easier :) ...

the final day of anjum and amaan's wedding festivities came about two and a half months after the wedding day itself; their grand, gorgeous walima was held at the sheraton baltimore north hotel just before thanksgiving 2013. it was pretty cold…

so my last wedding shoot of the year was a bit of a full circle for me, in many ways. for one, i was coming home to raleigh, and photographing among my childhood friends and their parents who have known me since childhood is always fun for me. for another…

shooting a walima - the final event in the long series that is a south asian muslim wedding - is always a little less hectic than a wedding ceremony itself, but it was a particular pleasure to be a part of omar and muneeba's walima. they are both such wonderfully down-to-earth people…